Women's Community ClinicThe Women's Community Clinic is a clinic serving the health and wellness needs of girls and women in the San Francisco Bay Area. This clinic, opened in 1999, is a volunteer-based, non-profit operation. (Women's Community Clinic website, 2014, story 1) The Women's Community Clinic (WCC) provides services to women, the transgender and gender variant community, and girls ages 12 and older living in San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda or Marin County regardless of their ability to pay for services. Their requirements for service are: having no health insurance, having inadequate health insurance, having Medi-Cal, or needing confidentiality from someone who shares their insurance policy. The WCC has counselors on site to help patients enroll and decide on a plan offered by the Affordable Care Act. (Women's Community Clinic website, 2014, FAQ 1)WCC is a project of the Tides Center. The Tides Center is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Having this designation allows the WCC to be exempt from federal income and property taxes, from state fundraising registration, and for individuals to make tax-deductible charitable contributions to the clinic. (Tides website, n.d., p. 1) The clinic's core values ​​are listed as client-centered care, cultural inclusion, and harm reduction. Customer-centered support is, as it sounds, customer-centered. The staff is committed to treating, educating and empowering their clients in a language that they are comfortable with and that is safe and non-threatening. This clinic cares for many unique individuals from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Cultural inclusion focuses on actively learning about different cultures and beliefs, and on the acceptance and validity of different information provided by education. Each patient admitted to cardiac rehabilitation has a risk factor profile upon admission and reassessed during the program and upon discharge. Education is provided based on the individual needs of each patient and the entire group related to cardiovascular health and wellness. PHN focus includes many aspects such as trend detection, data collection and analysis, disaster preparedness and relief, communicable disease reporting and many other tasks for the entire community, not only for a select group like I do. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, Chapter 46) Works Cited Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2012). Public health nursing: Population-centered care in the community (8th ed.). Maryland Heights, Missouri: Elsevier Mosby.Tides website. (n.d.). http://www.tides.org Women's Community Clinic website. (2014). http://www.womenscommunityclinic.org